Gun with reversible barrels



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

' E. I. HERRIUK.

GUN WITH REVERSIBLE BARRELS.

Patented Apr. 22,1890.

No. 426,015. M

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(No Model.)

E. I. HERRIGK. GUN WITH REVERSIBLE BARRELS. No. 426,015 Patented Apr. 22, 1890.

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NITE STATES ATENT EErcE.

GUN WITH REVERSlBLE BARRELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 426,015, dated April 22, 1890. Application filed October 17, 1889. Serial No. 327,306. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE IRA HERRICK, of Rangeley, in the county of Franklin and State of Maine, have invented an Improved Fire-Arm, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part hereof, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation, and Fig. 3 a vertical section, fire-arms, in which one barrel is a fowlingpiece and the otherarifle. Fig. 4 is a section on line 4 5 of Fig. 3, looking toward the breechblock. Fig. 5 is a section on the same line, looking toward the rear end of the barrel. Figs. 6 and 7 are detailed views of the stud by which the barrels are held to the breechblock, and Fig. 9 is a. cross-section on line 9 9 of Fig. 6. Fig. 8 is a crossseetion on line 8 8 of Fig. 3.

My invention is Fig. 2 a plan, of one of my a fire-arm having two barrels, each with its extractor connected to a breech-block by a stud, which has a camgroove to actuate the extractors, a part of the stud and a part of the breech-block being shaped to admit of the rearward motion of the extractors.

In the drawings, A A are the barrels; B, the breech-block; b, the firing-pin; D, the hammer; F, the stud by which the barrels are held to the breech-block; G, the stock, and g g the two parts of the fore-stock. The metal a, by which the two barrels A A are held together at the rear, is bored to receive the stud F, as shown in Figs. 3 and 8, and is also grooved to receive the stems of the cartridgeextractors (Z d. The camgroove (shown in Figs. 3, 6, and 7) is formed around the front end of the stud F, and projections from the front end of the cartridge-extractors cl (1' occupy this groove, so that when the barrels A A are revolved on the stud F, or, what is the same thing, the stud revolved between the barrels, the upper extractor will be, when the barrel A (shown in Fig. 3) moves toward the observer, thrown rearward by the cammed portion of the groove in the stud F, thus extracting the cartridge from the barrel A. The cartridge in the barrel A is not disturbed, for its extractor cl is not moved. Moreover, when the barrels are moved so that barrel A in Fig. 3 moves away from and barrel A toward observer the projection on extractor d springs over the shoulder f, and neither extractor is moved. The shoulder on the stud F and the parts of the breech-block adjacent to it are cut away to allow the rearward motion of one of the extractors, and also so shaped as to return the extractor to place when the barrels are moved far enough around the stud F, as will be clear from Figs. 4 and 6. The fore-stocks g g are held in place at the rear by the usual flange g and at their forward ends by the screw One side of the breech-block B is cut away, as shown in Figs. 1 and l, so that the cartridge may be inserted in one of the barrels when they are turned at an angle of ninety degrees from the position shown in the drawings. The forward end of stud F hasawedge-shaped orifice through it to receive the wedge-shaped key f, which is held in place by a set-screw, as shown in Fig. 3 and indicated in Fig. '7. The barrels are locked either one uppermost by bolt 6', which enters a corresponding recess in the block of metal by which the barrels are connected at their rear ends, as fully shown in Fig. 2 and indicated in Figs. 4 and 5.

I am aware that two barrels have been combined with a breech-block and a single hammer by means of a stud, as shown, for example, in Patent No. 358,915, dated March 8, 1887; but in that fire-arm the extractors were moved by hand and the diameter of the stud was so small that it did not require to be cut away, as shown in Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6, nor was the stud grooved to actuate the extractors.

I am also aware that Patent No. 209,925, dated November 12, 1878, shows a stud with cam-grooves; but these grooves act to move the barrel away from the breech-block, the extractor not moving endwise.

I disclaim all-that is shown in those patents, my fire-arm differing from them both in that the extractors are moved endwise by the relative rotation of the barrels and stud, and differing from the latter in that it has two barrels with a single hammer, for my invention is an improvement in that class of fire-arms in which two barrels are combined with a single hammer by means of a stud and breech-block, and its main advantage is that I am enabled to make the stud very stout without unduly separating the barrels, and also to make one of the barrels A of a bore large enough for afoWling-piece. In fact, both barrels may be fowling-pieces; but I prefer one a fowling-piece and the other a rifle, as shown.

The fact that my stud F can be made very stout and strong not only enables me to provide it with a groove for actuating the extractors, but also makes my fire-arm durable, simple, and inexpensive. It is, so far as I have any reason to believe, the first of this class in which the extractors were moved automatically.

WVhat I claim as my invention is- In a fire-arm having two barrels combined with a single hammer, the extractors cl (1, in combination with stud F, grooved to actuate the extractors and cut away to admit the rearward motion of the extractors, and breechbloclc B, also cut away to admit the rearward motion of the extractors, the Whole combination being and operating substantially as described.

EUGENE I. HERRIOK.

lVitnesses:

J. E. MAYNADIER, A. \V. WoonMAN. 

